The MaJiang (Mahjong) table is almost ubiquitous in China. Almost every household has one. You can find people playing it on nearly every alleyway. And so, finding a game going at my bicycle buddy’s birthday party was no surprise.

Morning over the Yangtze and Yichang city. The river water is warmer than the air temperature, thus the steam on the surface. The air is a little polluted during the winter due to everyone burning coal for heat.

del.icio.us is a fantastic web-based browser bookmark organizing application. In short, your bookmarks are saved online and are sorted by index words that you tag them with. Use it with the del.icio.us firefox extension to be really cool.

If you want the long and babbling version, read on: For a long time I saved bookmarks